The Anti-Christ, One Person Or Many?

Q. A friend sent me the article about Obama and the anti-Christ.  I am so tired of people talking about THE anti-Christ as if it were one person in history.  John the apostle defined “antiChrist” as anybody who denies that Jesus is God in the flesh. (I John 4:2-3)  That makes whole groups of people and some religions “anti-Christ.” They were in the world then and they are in the world now!

A. You are correct in your interpretation of John’s “spirit of anti-Christ” and of the 40 or more titles given him in Scripture, “Anti-Christ” is perhaps the least accurate.  Technically he’s a “pseudo-Christ” because he pretends to be the Christ.

However there is a person who comes on the scene at the end of the age who personifies John’s spirit of anti-Christ.  So many personal pronouns are used of him that it’s impossible to see him any other way. Daniel called him the coming prince, Paul called him the son of perdition and the man of lawlessness, and to John he’s the beast, but the world thinks of him as the anti-Christ